[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 7.2.0-rc2 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
third release candidate for the QEMU 7.2 release. This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-7.2.0-rc2.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-7.2.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 7.2 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs using our GitLab issue tracker:

  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/7#tab-issues

The release plan, as well a documented known issues for release
candidates, are available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/7.2

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 7.2 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/7.2

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc1:

7c09a7f6ae: Update VERSION for v7.2.0-rc2 (Stefan Hajnoczi)
15f8f4671a: target/arm: Use signed quantity to represent VMSAv8-64 translation 
level (Ard Biesheuvel)
26ba00cf58: target/arm: Don't do two-stage lookup if stage 2 is disabled (Peter 
Maydell)
4451cc4653: hw/loongarch: Replace the value of uart info with macro (Xiaojuan 
Yang)
e8c8203e55: hw/loongarch: Fix setprop_sized method in fdt rtc node. (Xiaojuan 
Yang)
0208ba74c5: hw/loongarch: Add default stdout uart in fdt (Xiaojuan Yang)
b7c61789e6: virtio: disable error for out of spec queue-enable (Michael S. 
Tsirkin)
04e5bd441a: acpi/tests/avocado/bits: keep the work directory when BITS_DEBUG is 
set in env (Ani Sinha)
c4d4c40c51: tests/avocado: configure acpi-bits to use avocado timeout (John 
Snow)
242a58cabe: MAINTAINERS: add mst to list of biosbits maintainers (Ani Sinha)
83afb1409f: tests: acpi: x86: update expected DSDT after moving PRQx fields in 
_SB scope (Igor Mammedov)
4fd75ce076: acpi: x86: move RPQx field back to _SB scope (Igor Mammedov)
2df30863fa: tests: acpi: whitelist DSDT before moving PRQx to _SB scope (Igor 
Mammedov)
562a7d23bf: vhost: mask VIRTIO_F_RING_RESET for vhost and vhost-user devices 
(Stefano Garzarella)
5544d33d4b: gitlab: integrate coverage report (Alex Bennée)
f22a80727f: tests/avocado: skip aarch64 cloud TCG tests in CI (Alex Bennée)
ba5d1f23f7: tests/avocado: introduce alpine virt test for CI (Alex Bennée)
5d25e1e02c: tests/avocado: Raise timeout for 
boot_linux.py:BootLinuxPPC64.test_pseries_tcg (Peter Maydell)
73ee4c55f7: docs/devel: try and improve the language around patch review (Alex 
Bennée)
ca127fe96d: docs/devel: simplify the minimal checklist (Alex Bennée)
115847f6b0: docs/devel: make language a little less code centric (Alex Bennée)
668725ce6b: docs/devel: add a maintainers section to development process (Alex 
Bennée)
e558220df0: tests/docker: allow user to override check target (Alex Bennée)
a4b14b46d9: tests/avocado/machine_aspeed.py: Reduce noise on the console for 
SDK tests (Cédric Le Goater)
47fdc8fb82: Run docker probe only if docker or podman are available (Stefan 
Weil)
6d71357a3b: rtl8139: honor large send MSS value (Stefan Hajnoczi)
c74831a02c: rtl8139: keep Tx command mode 0 and 1 separate (Stefan Hajnoczi)
bd142b2391: rtl8139: avoid clobbering tx descriptor bits (Stefan Hajnoczi)
312b71abce: target/arm: Limit LPA2 effective output address when TCR.DS == 0 
(Ard Biesheuvel)
c4462523ff: tests/avocado/boot_linux.py: Bump aarch64 virt test timeout to 720s 
(Peter Maydell)
3d5af538a4: hw/intc: add implementation of GICD_IIDR to Arm GIC (Alex Bennée)
69e7e60d01: hw/intc: clean-up access to GIC multi-byte registers (Alex Bennée)
93e2da36ed: hw/sd: Fix sun4i allwinner-sdhost for U-Boot (Strahinja Jankovic)
b5280437a7: migration: Block migration comment or code is wrong (Juan Quintela)
6f39c90b86: migration: Disable multifd explicitly with compression (Peter Xu)
cedb70eafb: migration: Use non-atomic ops for clear log bitmap (Peter Xu)
afed4273b5: migration: Disallow postcopy preempt to be used with compress 
(Peter Xu)
f5816b5c86: migration: Fix race on qemu_file_shutdown() (Peter Xu)
4934a5dd7c: migration: Fix possible infinite loop of ram save process (Peter Xu)
4cc47b4395: migration/multifd/zero-copy: Create helper function for flushing 
(Leonardo Bras)
a216ec85b7: migration/channel-block: fix return value for 
qio_channel_block_{readv,writev} (Fiona Ebner)
06639f8ff5: chardev/char-win-stdio: Pass Ctrl+C to guest with a multiplexed 
monitor (Bin Meng)
049b4ad669: target/ppc: Fix build warnings when building with 'disable-tcg' 
(Vaibhav Jain)
1b7a07c441: acpi/tests/avocado/bits: some misc fixes (Ani Sinha)
c70fe3b148: ci: replace x86_64 macos-11 with aarch64 macos-12 (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
be5df2edb5: docs/system/s390x: Document the "loadparm" machine property (Thomas 
Huth)
44ee69ea16: s390x: Fix spelling errors (Thomas Huth)